Team is slumping. Haven't been good for some time now as they did come to play Thursday but the efforts against the Oilers, Stars, and Blues have been amongst their worst of the season. They should be up for a game like this at home trying to maintain a division lead against a struggling team. Instead they came out flat and weren't prepared to play from the opening puck drop.
Also it appears Smith is done. Not sure how the team is going to deal with this but it appears he's not even serviceable in a backup position as he lets in soft goals nearly every start and there's too much parity in the league to be spotting teams goals every start. We saw today that the Flames offense can't be counted on to overcome soft goals every time this guy starts.
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